Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skits that besplatter the show. Author Paul Gerard Smith comes out of vaudeville with an itch to thrust satire at his audience. His travesties of The Hairy Ape, Ladies' Night and The Song and Dance Man will work no harm to Eugene O'Neill, Avery Hopwood and George M. Cohan...
Aside from the sentimental objection to calling Messieurs Washington, Clemenceau, Cohan, and the pullman porter by a common Christian name there seems to be no valid basis for the Society's efforts. No other appellation but "George" will do for the porter. He can not be expected to reply to "Pat" or "Mike", nor even "Hans" or "Fritz". He is usually too old to be called "boy" and too young to be hailed as "old man". And furthermore, he is too important a personage to be addressed by any title but one which traditionally connotes dignity and respect...
...this would be a nucleus of a collection of historic musical instruments used by great composers, which I consider are now proper for the playing of advanced modern jazz. It was further stated that I am planning to obtain instruments used by Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, and possibly George M. Cohan...
...SONG AND DANCE MAN-George M. Cohan shows how well he knows George M. Cohan...
...SONG AND DANCE MAN?George M. Cohan shrewdly puts himself into the gallery of stage types...